A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

Abhay Charanaravinda Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (1 September 1896-14 November 1977) was an Indian Hindu spiritual teacher and the founder of the Hare Krishna movement.

Biography
Abhay Charanaravinda Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada was born in Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, British India in 1896, and he became a pious renunciant in 1950, giving up his small pharmaceutical business. In 1959, he took a vow of renunciation and started writing commentaries on Vaishnava scriptures. He later became a Vaishnava monk, and, in 1966, he founded the Hare Krishna movement in New York City. The media attacked his movement as a cult, while religious scholars supported it; his movement gave out free vegetarian meals to the starving. He was successful in acquiring followers worldwide, and he died in Vrindavan, Uttar Pradesh, India in 1977.